New Oxygen-Hunting Technique Could Tell If Distant Planets Are ‘Alive or Not’

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:28:30 +0000

“Oxygen is one of the most exciting molecules to detect because of its link with life, but we don’t know if life is the only cause of oxygen in an atmosphere.”

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U.S. Company Has Deal with Jordan for Nuclear Technology

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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There have long been grand plans for developing nuclear power in the Middle East. After Iran brought the Bushehr plant online in 2011, the country talked of building another dozen or so reactors. Saudi Arabia

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Sandy Munro Talks Tesla Cybertruck, Exoskeleton, SpaceX, Big 3, & More

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 06:22:52 +0000

In an interview with an advisor to some of the world’s top manufacturing executives, Sandy Munro, Sean Mitchell dives right in with this burning question: “Did you get one?” One, being a Cybertruck

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This Is the Best Spot for Humans to Land on Mars Yet, NASA Says

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 20:14:51 +0000

If humans want to not die on Mars, they’ll need a reliable source of water. NASA scientists think they’ve found it in a place where ice is so close to the surface that astronauts could get to it with a shovel.

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eVTOL Aircraft Developers Will Meet At The World’s Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:53 +0000

NBAA-BACE 2019 UAM Airbus Vahana eVTOL Display. Photo: Nicolas ZartJanuary is always a tough month for us, with CES kicking off less than a week after New Year’s Eve, and now the Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference is two weeks later

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Uber Air & NASA Launch Airspace Simulation To Enable eVTOL Future

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:02:27 +0000

Computer network connection modern city future technology, https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-and-uber-test-system-for-future-urban-air-transportNASA & Uber Air share, by all appearances in this simulation, a tidy answer to a widespread urban issue: electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft

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NASA’s All-Electric X-57 Experimental Plane Debut With Interview

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:20:04 +0000

NASA received its all-electric experimental plane recently, the X-57, from Empirical Systems Aerospace (ESAero) of San Luis Obispo, CA. Based on the Tecnam P2006T, an Italian 4-seat twin engine light aircraft, the X-57 utilizes distributed propulsion wings with multiple small, electric motors

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